OOPS when e-mail sent to Launchpad has incorrect encoding

This is the source of one of the messages as returned in the bounce message. I see a good PGP signature locally on it:

Return-Path: <email address hidden>
X-Original-To: <email address hidden>
Delivered-To: <email address hidden>
Received: from [127.0.1.1] (static-72-81-252-22.bltmmd.fios.verizon.net
 [72.81.252.22])
 by fiordland.canonical.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E8A5B6824C
 for <email address hidden>; Mon, 7 Jul 2008 14:27:42 +0100 (BST)
From: <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Please sync pyyaml 3.05-2 (universe) from Debian unstable (main).
Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 14:27:42 +0100 (BST)
X-UID: 0

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 affects ubuntu/pyyaml
 status confirmed
 importance wishlist
 subscribe ubuntu-archive

Please sync pyyaml 3.05-2 (universe) from Debian unstable (main).

Now that libyaml is out of New, we can do this ...

Changelog since current intrepid version 3.05-1:

pyyaml (3.05-2) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Piotr Ożarowski ]
  * Vcs-Browser and Homepage fields added
  * XS-Vcs-Svn field renamed to Vcs-Svn
  * DM-Upload-Allowed set to "yes"

  [ Sandro Tosi ]
  * debian/control
    - uniforming Vcs-Browser field

  [ Scott Kitterman ]
  * Build with lib-yaml now that it is in the archive (Closes: #435410)
    - Add build-dep on libyaml-dev and python-pyrex
    - Add depends for ${shlibs:Depends} (Package falls back to pure Python
      if libyaml is not present, but it's not worth splitting a small package)
    - Install with setup_with_libyaml.py for all Python versions
    - Switch from arch all to arch any
  * Add debug package
    - Add python-all-dbg to build-dep
    - Add python-yaml-dbg to debian/control
    - Update debian/rules
  * Switch from python-support to python-central
    - Update depends
    - Remove pyversions
    - Add XS/XB-python-versions to debian/control
    - Update debian/rules
  * Update package description
  * Update standards version to 3.8.0.1

 -- Scott Kitterman <email address hidden> Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:32:45 -0400

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On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 04:16:27PM -0000, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Using the requestsync script, I consistently get rejected by Launchpad.
> The script works fine for other packages.

This is a bug both in Launchad, and in the requestsync script. Launchpad
should handle this somehow, and at the very least give you a good error
message. So this is a valid bug report.

The bug with the requestsync script is that it produces an e-mail
containing non-ascii characters, without specifying which encoding is
being used. If you specify the encoding in the Content-type header,
Launchpad should accept the mail.

Bug 368166 is a test with the old requestsync. I see that Launchpad now accepts the mail, but it appears to be reading it as a sequence of ISO-8859-1 bytes.

Bug 368171 is a test with my requestsync fix, and it all now appears to work fine.

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-dev-tools - 0.73

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ubuntu-dev-tools (0.73) karmic; urgency=low

  [ Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals ]
  * pbuilder-dist:
    - Fallback to calling lsb_release if /etc/lsb-release doesn't
       exist; this makes it possible to run pbuilder-dist on Debian.

  [ Nathan Handler ]
  * pull-debian-source:
    - Use Getopt::Long

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * submittodebian:
    - New release cycle; use "karmic" usertag.
  * dch-repeat:
    - Drop EOLed gutsy and add karmic.
  * pull-lp-source:
    - Set default release to karmic.
  * reverse-build-depends:
    - Set default release to karmic.
  * bash_completion/pbuilder-dist:
    - Add karmic.
    - Add squeeze.
  * requestsync:
    - Send a "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8" header (LP: #246307).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:39:15 +0100

Looking at the code now, I believe this to be fixed.